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In July, New Horizons crosses the next great frontier in our solar system<p>Mankind is about to visit one of the strangest places in our solar system. Out beyond Neptune, the Kuiper belt is home to hordes of cold, lumpy worlds—some of which are large enough to have their own moons, but none of which …

"From a science point of view, it's Mars and Mars alone," Chris McKay, who is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, told Business Insider.<p>"It's our one chance to make another habitable environment."<p>Deep down, McKay is a self-proclaimed terraformer — someone who is actively searching …

Native wolves had been eradicated and the forests of the eastern United States long cut down when residents of western New York first began to notice the arrival of coyotes in the 1940s.<p>The coyotes of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains were lithe and quick, usually weighing less than 30 pounds. …

120,000 saiga antelope were wiped out in just a matter of weeks. Here's how researchers are figuring out what happened.<p>When we hear about huge losses in an endangered species, it's usually over the course of several months or years, and it's often the fault of humans. But sometimes, nature can …

It’s been nearly a dozen years since the last flight of the Concorde. For over a quarter century, the sleek and sexy Anglo-French airplane represented the jet set era of the the late 20th Century. Ernie Edwards, a veteran of the private jet industry thinks the next passenger supersonic flights are …

Today Earth is home to the heaviest animal that has ever lived: the blue whale. As far as we know, no past animal has ever weighed more. But some have been longer.<p>While the large dinosaurs tend to grab more than their fair share of attention, there have been many other giant animals that we will …

Because the whale was on its back in the surf, biologists haven't been able to tell if the whale was killed after being hit by a ship, one of the ways the endangered creatures are sometimes killed.<p>"This beach, because of its geographical features and currents, lends itself to being a huge …

Carnivorous penis-shaped worms could turn their mouths inside out and drag themselves along by their teeth during the Cambrian Period, 500 million years ago<p>It sounds like something out of a Frank Herbert fantasy novel, but flesh-eating ‘penis worms’ roamed the Earth 500 million years ago.<p>The …

Back in 1890, Thomas Edison gave us some of the world's first talking dolls. Today, the glassy-eyed cherubs that are still around stand about 2 feet tall; they have wooden limbs and a metal body; and they sound <i>supercreepy</i>. (If you're looking for a soundtrack to your nightmares, listen to the audio …

Welcome to the Anthropocene, a.k.a. the Age of Man, a.k.a. we're now in charge of Earth and we better take better care of it.<p>When you or I look at a mountain range running alongside an interstate highway, we might see a series of majestic peaks. When Kirk Johnson looks at a mountain range, he sees …

Forget the Beach Boys, Michael Jackson and Madonna. The most important cultural shift in American pop music began with the explosion of rap in the early 1990s.<p>The Beatles and the Rolling Stones didn't spark the British Invasion of the 1960s, but they did fan its flames.<p>And don't buy snobs' …

An ancient Mayan city followed a unique grid pattern, providing evidence of a powerful ruler, archaeologists have found.<p>The city, which contains flat-topped pyramids, is being excavated at Nixtun-Ch'ich' in Petén, Guatemala. It was in use between roughly 600 B.C. and 300 B.C., a time when the first …